New NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Banner Has Freddy Walking on Water

Now, this should have been the second poster Warner/New Line released for their NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake.  It’s different.  It’s slick.  It’s a little creepy.

Just one note, completely black out the girl’s face.  Make her a faceless victim, and make Jackie Earle Haley’s Freddy and the hallway the star of the thing.  This inclusion of an actor’s face seems a bit like they are going for the SCREAM/I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER structure, which, essentially, made the 20-somethings-posing-as-teens the stars of the film rather than the killer of the piece.

Nonetheless, there is very little I dislike about this poster.  Even that little inclusion of a period at the end of the tag line:

“He knows where you sleep.”

As if that’s the final word on Freddy and the way he is going to find you.  So far, so good on all aspects of the marketing for this film.  Let’s just hope Platinum Dunes and Samuel Bayer deliver where Marcus Nispel couldn’t with this FRIDAY THE 13th remake.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is set for release on April 30th.